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Quote by Michael Mandelbaum
Read the news section of the newspaper and there is confusion and

Read the news section of the newspaper and there is confusion and uncertainty, a world buffeted by large forces people neither understand nor control. But turn to the sports section and its all different. – Michael Mandelbaum

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The cardinal sin in sports, what could really wreck it, is not cheating to win, which has gone on forever, but cheating to lose. That threatens a fundamental aspect of sports appeal, which is their spontaneity. If games are fixed, theyre no different from movies theyre scripted. – Michael Mandelbaum

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American influence in the world is certainly considerable, but the United States does not control, directly or indirectly, the politics and economics of other societies, as empires have always done, save for a few special cases that turn out to be the exceptions that prove the rule. – Michael Mandelbaum

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If architecture is, as is sometimes said, music set in concrete, then football and basketball may be said to be creativity embodied in team sports. – Michael Mandelbaum

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Other Quotes from
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The sports world is an echo chamber. All it takes is one quote from a general manager and a thousand sports columns bloom. – Michael Lewis

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Sports

I love that men like to look at women, that they love sports, that they need to know the inner workings of mechanical objects. I love the whole makeup of men – that they never mature and are always just boys. – Krista Allen

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Sports

I also watched a lot of football and sports. I havent had much time to watch too much TV lately. – Casper Van Dien

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I was lucky enough when it came to sports and work ethic to be taught some basics that continue to be important. – Joe Namath

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The saddest thing that befalls a soul is when it loses faith in God and woman. – Alexander Smith

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I think coldness is chic among writers, and particularly ironic coldness. What is absolutely not allowable is sadness. People will do anything rather than to acknowledge that they are sad. – Mary Gordon

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Fear comes in two packages fear of failure, and sometimes, fear of success. – Tom Kite

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One characteristic of Americans is that they have no tolerance at all of anybody putting up with anything. We believe that whatever is going wrong ought to be fixed. – Margaret Mead

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